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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Little fucker needs to be deported and tossed off of the train which brought him here.

But then again, I am a softie at heart. Others I know would just shoot the ungrateful little bastard.

(Notice there is no discussion of a father at his new home.)

Only got fed twice a day...and ham sandwiches at that. Mebbe you should have stayed home Young Saul.

(and just who are the members of the "Congressional Panel" who heard his testimony and what powers do they have, anyway?) Can they do anything, or are they just wasting money hearing sob stories to gin up publicity and sympathy for the ungrateful little urchins)

Sunday, July 27, 2014

I mean, since DC is now "Constitutional Carry" I wonder how soon anarchy will roam the environs of the city....How red will the streets run? How many thousands upon thousands will dies from being gunned down in the streets?

Or are you, like me, of the opinion that there will be little (if any) effect....Might be a small reduction in crime, rather than the above.

When history will revile the name of Barack Obama and no one will want to be remembered as voting for him, working with him, or ever having known him. The damage he is doing to the country, the economy of the United States, our military preparedness, to the security of our borders (and all the implications for terrorism that that implies), to our relations with our allies, and to the culture of the people of this country will someday make him the most despised president ever. There will come a time when people will not admit to supporting him....when they will sell the cars upon which they placed "Obama" bumper stickers for fear of retribution.

At first I thought it was incompetence or naivete that led to the terrible things he did/has done to our country. No more. I am coming to believe that his actions and the actions of his supporters are a series of actions which indicate that there is a plan to harm both the country as a whole and the citizens upon which its strength resides. Now, I wonder if he was, in fact, placed where he is by our adversaries to facilitate damaging our country and economy.

If he continues as he has, until 2016, without the Legislature stopping him, he will, as he has promised, "Fundamentally transform America".....at the expense of those citizens who are the lifeblood and the strength of this country. Further, he will have weakened "America" to the point where she will no longer be able to defend herself against her neighbors or adversaries.

I have no issues with a person whose philosophy is different than mine, so long as they wish to keep the US strong and vibrant we can agree on many things, to disagree. Not so Barry Soetoro. I believe he hates the US and wishes to destroy this country. I am not so sure his published past is a true story, and, while I realize this sounds fairly tinfoil, sometimes think that if I were an enemy of the US I could not find a person who could have done more damage from within than he has.

Remember, Rome fell not because of the barbarians outside of the gates, but from within. When the barbarians came, they found the gates already open.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Now I am sadly late in writing about this, and the book is currently sold out, but I have some knowledge of some of the stories, and I knew Barkley for a few years....And I can tell you that Brigid's writing will make him come alive in your mind's eye. It'll be back in stock soon so you should order it to get in the que for shipping.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Watching CBS news, you'd think that the "Palestinians" were all sitting there and drinking tea while singing Kumbayah" and holding hands and praying for world peace when Israel suddenly sent rockets and artillery into their midst for no reason.

No bias there, is there?

I mean, no mention of the rockets fired from "Palestine" by Hamas...Of course, we got pictures of women and especially children bleeding and such...and photos of school that was destroyed by Israel fire (no mention of the fact that the school courtyard was where the Hamas rockets were fired into Israel).

Thing is, you don't realize exactly how much of your daily life would be affected were the electrical grid to fail due to a solar storm. No Food after about a week. No gasoline for your generator (if you have one)....no money (you get paid with, and pay your bills via electronic money...If the bank has no electricity to power the computers, they can neither make withdrawals OR deposits. You paycheck is just so much paper for them......Your Visa card, ATM card and your debit card are just pieces of plastic...... The store where you get food has no registers, and no inventory control, so they don't have any idea what to order, and the distribution warehouse isn't getting either new shipments nor making any shipments because they can't keep track of what goes where nor what they have in inventory.....and there isn't any fuel for the trucks to deliver because fuel is moved through the pipeline and pumped to the truck by.....electricity. (Not to mention the fact that the billing for the fuel is also electronic, which ain't working either.

The internet? Seriously. not there right now. House phones? Maybe, but unlikely. For sure no long distance. Cell phone network? Maybe, but probably not....besides, you can't charge your phone anyway, so what does it matter?

Heat and air conditioning might matter depending on when it happens. But it won't matter after a few weeks because you are gonna likely be too hungry to care. And thirsty too, because you either get your drinking and flushing water from either a municipal water supply (electric drives those pumps) or a private well (electricity again) The sewers are backed up if you live in a city anyway, so you will probably want to move out after a few weeks, but where to?

Yeah, we ans a nation will recover...but it'll take about 2 years. Maybe more. And that assumes that the folks who supply those transformers and switchgear are still able begin making replacements immediately and don't have infrastructure issues of their own.

Got food for your household a few months? (I do). Got fuel for your generator for at least that long? (I do, if I ration very carefully). Can you heat your house in the winter without power? (I can, but it won't be pretty or comfortable).

Think about it. Be glad that it missed us and we didn't even know it. If it had hit, a lot of people would have died in the first 6 months.

You can prepare for this, up to a point. but only to a point. After enough time passes, you are living like your great great great great grandparents did, except that they knew how to live like that and you will have to learn....quickly.

45 years ago, we put a man (actually 2 men) on another celestial body.

(the actual time 3:18 PM Central time)

6 hours later Neil Armstrong became the first human (as far as we know, anyway) to walk upon the surface of the moon.

By today's standards, the equipment they flew in and used was very crude. Your cell phone likely has more computing power than all the computers used in the effort...your desktop or laptop that you are reading this post on almost certainly does. If you fly commercial, you will likely be in a more complex craft.

It took a great deal of effort, and lot of money to do what they did.

Sadly, today, NASA no longer has the drive nor the people to do anything remotely as ground breaking as putting people on the moon. NASA isn't the NASA we think of when we think of NASA.

They have become, at best, a political arm of the current administration, and a waste of money.

But take a moment and reflect on the achievement of the people of NASA then.

Now we gotta beg ex commies for a ride to the "international" space station.

Now, if the police can lie and get away with it in a case like this, (enough that the Chief of Police has issued a memo saying that it should stop immediately) then can we ever use their testimony in court? Any policeman? I mean, really, since there is no negative consequences to them, and they are, apparently not willing to clean their own house, I would take any testimony that any Durham policeman gave as a lie.....

I mean, I have no issue with people coming to this country (legally) and wanting a better life. I have no issues that they retain and honor the culture from which they came.

But for god's sake, after you choose to live here, learn the native language.

I have known many immigrants, Polish, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Indonesian, Russians.......they all chose to learn english. . I worked for an Italian immigrant when I was in high school, washing dishes in his pizza restaurant. While his english wasn't good, HE SPOKE ENGLISH. He learned to speak the language of his native country. I do business with a guy who is a motor repairman. He is German (Very Cherman) Yet he speaks english, because HE LIVES HERE AND IT IS HIS COUNTRY.

Not so, these new people. They speak only spanish, and there are enough of them that places like the Banks and now Lowes are catering to them, with Spanish language signage and even spanish language clerks.

I foresee a day, however, when this will backfire upon these businesses. People are getting tired of the pandering to those who are invaders, not citizens.
I predict there will come a day when those businesses who pander to these invaders will be burned and their property trashed, Where they will be afraid to show spanish language signage.And I will support such actions.

Watching the news this morning, I see that the media is still condemning Israel for targeting sites in Gaza that shoot missiles into Israel.

Oddly enough, when these missiles are shot from areas where there are civilians (which is nearly always), then the return fire damages the civilians homes.Sometimes the Israeli airstrikes hurt other people as well.

No one points out that:

1. History shows being anywhere near the area where Hamas is shooting missiles is bad for your health...the smart person leaves home when Hamas shows up and begins setting up their missile tubes.

2. Israeli civilians are targeted by Hamas missiles.

3. Strangely, Israel doesn't shoot or bomb into Gaza when there isn't anyone shooting at Israel.

Instead, the reporters, generally female and with a quasi British accent, mournfully (while breathlessly narrating) show the damaged concrete boxes apartments and injured "Palestinian" children and families....and never blame the folks that start this mess...the Hamas nissileeers.

Friday, July 11, 2014

That since the We Wanna Take Everyone's Scary Guns Away crowd has more or less given up until the next legislative group comes in at the end of 2014, that the number of mass shootings by heavily drugged psychotic individuals has dropped to ...well.....zero? No more Adam Lanzas with a long history of mental illness and drug treatment or James Holmes and Jared Laughners that had serious mental illness but somehow were unreported and allowed to purchase firearms and go on a rampage.

Odd that, isn't it??

Now I'm not one for tinfoil helmets (shiny side out please) and I hate to think that there would be a group that wants to disarm us so bad that they would sacrifice innocent people and children and a US Senator just to make their agenda move forward but.....Hell Yes I think that. Since the gun control legislation went down in flames, there hasn't been a mass shooting of any note. And those who have tried to commit such atrocities since then were, strangely, not long term users of psychotropic drugs.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

So about 12+ years ago I purchased a GPI
fuel transfer pump. I have several diesel vehicles and I needed a pump
to transfer stored diesel to the appropriate vehicles. I generally buy
diesel from the stations when the price is down (I might buy 150 gallons
at a time if the price drops far enough) and store it for when the
price jumps or when I just need to fuel the tractor or generator or
whatever.

Now, this fuel pump has worked well for me
for several years. It replaced a hand powered pump because I just got too
lazy to pump 20 gallons or so of diesel by hand (do you know how many
strokes of a hand pump that is?) I'd bet that this pump has moved in
excess of 5 thousand gallons, both into and out of the fuel tanks.

Sadly,
earlier this year, the pump no longer moved fuel. The electric motor
would run but no movement of fuel. For a while,I was using a different
pump I had because I was too busy to take the broken pump down and open
it up to see what was wrong.

I got an exploded parts
breakdown off the website and took the time to observe the pump and
determine what parts I needed. When I called GPI to see where I could
buy the parts, the conversation went like this:

"Hi, I need to order a gear and key set for a 150S pump. "

"Ok".

"and a gasket kit for the gear plate."

"Ok"

"And any other parts you think I need"

"Does the pump prime?"

"No"

"then I'll send you a poppet valve kit too....I need your address"

"123 XXXYYY City state"

"Cool, I'll get those out today"

"How much will that be?"

"I'll send them to you"

"Yes, I got that, how much and do you take Visa?"

"I'll send them to you"

"yes, and what are the charges?"

'I am sending them to you at no charge. "

"Oh, Thank you"

Didn't
expect that, and the pump is 12+ years old. I doubt that the parts cost
them that much to make, but still, this is well beyond what I expected
as customer service. Hell, I'd have at least expected to have to pay for
postage.

Monday, July 7, 2014

Of course, no one can seem to find any law that Cliven Bundy broke regarding the protests and the subsequent intimidation of the BLM (if they were actually BLM officers and not outside contractors in BLM uniforms) by the protestors.

Really? What law did Mr. Bundy break? Where is his responsibility? The land was either Interstate highways, State roads, or BLM land that Mr. Bundy leased for grazing and that the BLM had states was no longer his to do anything with. It wasn't (according the BLM) his property to control.

How was Mr. Bundy ever, in any way, responsible for the thousands of people who supported him in his face off of the BLM? Yes, it was his fight that they rallied to, but I never saw any video, nor heard any stories, about him exhorting people to "point rifles at" nor shoot the Feds.

And I still have to ask why, if there was a true case against Mr. Bundy, he is not under arrest and his possessions confiscated by the Feds under a federal judges order (hint: there is no order because no judge will give the BLM one)

And if the Sheriff felt that the BLM was out of line, then WHY didn't he exercise his powers as a county Sheriff and exclude them(the feds) from the area? The Sheriff has that right, but instead he chose not to be there at all.

And if the Feds had any case against Cliven Bundy or any of the protesters, they'd have made arrests already. Cliven Bundy may or may not owe the Feds any money. A judge has heard the case, and while he did allow the removal of cattle, he did not make any judgement against Mr. Bundy regarding his other assets. IF there was a case, Mr. Bundy would be under arrest and his personal property seized.

YOU SHOULD READ his post, and contribute ideas and publicity. If you have a blog, link to his post. We really could make this happen. If enough people participated it'd make the Bundy thing look like a kids bithday party.

We could make this a movement. In fact, I suggested in a comment either here or there that we should find a way to make it a tax deductible donation (501c(3)?) so as to screw the government twice...once by putting up a fence and second by deducting the materials as a tax deduction....Likely we could also deduct fuel and food and lodging as well.

I can see it now...THOUSANDS of men and women arriving at the border with posthole diggers and trailerloads of fence materials, gloves and hats and boots, ready to work...working for a week or so, and then returning home. Daring the government to do something about it.

Leaving in their wake, a more secure border.

I am up for it...are you? I am sure that later this year I could find a week or so to improve our countries border security.

So I go to the range Saturday, expecting that what with the holiday weekend it won't be too busy....I had been suggesting to the range management that they assign someone during a work day to seal the posts holding up the roof in the sunshade on the outdoor range (no maintenance for something like 25 years, so it is needful). Since the last two work parties had been cancelled or were sparsely attended, I went on Saturday, purchased 5 gallons of Thompson's water seal (hate the new formula, BTW) and took a few hours to do it myself...at least the uprights, which were very much in need of some love.

I'm about halfway done, spraying the posts with a sprayer and then working the sealer into the surface with a brush, when another member shows up. He isn't planning to shoot on the range that I am working on, but feels that he has both the right and the time to give me advice.

Now, I am trying to be polite, but I am getting pissed off. For one, I don't like people who don't work at maintaining the range, period. I feel that if you are a member, you can find a few hours a year to do basic maintenance, much less help with improvements. Secondly, I don't like people who stand there and watch a person work while criticizing their methods. If you want to help, feel free to show me how, but don't tell me about it while I am working and you aren't.

So, I sorta am tuning this asshole out while spraying and brushing, and finally I tell him that I have a spare brush if he wants to help. (the other option, which I would have preferred, is shooting him in the kneecap or foot with my carry gun, but even in a somewhat progressive, free thinking state like Indiana, judges frown upon such behavior)

He doesn't take the hint:

So I stop working, raise my hand (to interrupt the flow of unwelcome advice) and when he winds down, I say:

"You must be a liberal....I bet you voted for Barry".

His eyes widen, and he begins to splutter denials.

"Then stop acting like a liberal. You show up here, uninvited, you give unwelcome advice, showing that you have never done the job, but merely read about it, you criticize those people who are actually doing something productive when you aren't willing to get your own hands dirty., And you won't stop interfering with the job.
Either start helping or shut the hell up and go away"

He actually decides to shut up and leave. Which is fine by me.

Still got work to do on the sealing, but hey, it is a start.

Today, I am off to another, longer range, to sight in a new precision upper/scope combination for my AR. Should be a 1 MOA or better combo...we will see.

Friday, July 4, 2014

Not just the 4th of July folks, but a day to celebrate the beginning of our nation. Independence day!

This is the birthday of our country...It has many problems, indeed, I have whined about most of them at one time or another.

Having said that, today is the day we celebrate (rightly or wrongly) the birthday of our nation. One that, while terribly imperfect, is still the best on this planet.

So while you are having your hot dogs and hamburgers and watching those pretty lights on the sky this evening, be thankful that you live in this country....be proud of what our forefathers did to create the set of rules that made this country great. Thank whatever Deity you choose to that you live here rather than another country, under another set of rules.If you are an immigrant, be thankful that you got here, if a natural born citizen, be thankful for that.

I still celebrate the birth of the greatest country ever known, even if she is a bit down right now.

God willing we can get rid of these liberals and RINO's and restore this country to greatness.

If only 'cause there is nowhere else to go.

It occurs to me that this is what we get for having "tolerance".

And letting the cancer of liberalism grow in this country...for that we can thank the Baby Boomers....those born post WWII.

For without them and their votes, we'd not have had any of this....it all started in the 60's and grew in the 70's. Barry may want to "fundamentally transform America" but the transformation began about 50 years ago....And has damaged our country badly. Maybe even terminally.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

They were, unfortunately, forced to say SOMETHING....But in placating one market segement, they chose to alienate another one. I am a part of that alienated portion.

Sadly(for them), my firearms is attached to my pants....which is also where my wallet and money clip reside.

Therefore, if my gun (and therefore my pants) aren't welcome, then I will stay away...and so will my wallet and my money clip.

Unless, and until Target is willing to also take responsibility AND liability for my safety from any shootings, stabbings, assaults, or other mayhem which might happen in their store (and this would require more than one elderly security guard, more like 15 per store to be effective) then they cannot have my business.

I probably spend 3-4 thousand dollars a year at Target. Now my gun, my pants, and my wallet will be forced to accompany me elsewhere for my shopping needs.

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I am just striving towards mediocrity....
Just a normal middle American middle class guy. I own my own business, employ a few people, and try to make a buck. In my (slight) spare time, I read a few blogs, shoot a bit, and rest.